Garment-clasp.



0. KAMPFE.

GARMENT CLASP.

APPLIOATION nun) JULY 12, 1909.

. Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT onnron.

OTTO KAMPFE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-CLASP.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Or'ro KAMPFE, a citizen of the United States,residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city andState of New York, have invented an Improvement in Garment- Clasps, ofwhich the following is a specification.

In mens garments the drawers are usually made with loops of tape sewedto the waistband and through these loops the suspender ends are passedin connecting the latter to the buttons of the trousers-band so that thesuspender ends partially at least support the drawers. This manner ofsupport and connection is not entirely acceptable or con venient besidesconsuming time in dressing.

The object of my invention is to overcome these difiiculties in a handy,easily applied instrumentality, which when fastened in the morningconnecting the garments may be so left throughout the day.

In the device of my invention I employ a plate provided with means forconnecting the same to the trousers waist-band for support, a memberhinged thereto and between which and the plate the waist-band of thedrawers is received and secured, and I employ a locking device assistingin holding the hinged member in a fixed clamping relation to the plate.The hinged member is provided with a projection and the plate with aspring tongue with which the locking member is associated. The hingedmember is apertured and the plate provided with a yielding headconcentric to the aperture for engaging the waist-band of the drawers orother fabric part and holding the same firmly.

In the drawing, Figure l is a front elevation representing the preferredform of my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation at the back or rear of thedevice. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the dotted line a", w, of Fig.1.

Referring nowto the drawings Figs. 1, 2 and 3, a represents the plate towhich any desired outline may be given. One end of this plate isover-turned to form the integral spring clip or clips a. Lugs 60 areformed and bent up from the opposite edges and the main body of theplate is provided with a spring tongue a formed by cutting out the metalbody of the plate to about the form shown; there being an opening in theplate around the tongue. Near the opposite Specification of LettersPatent.

Application filed July 12, 1909.

Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

Serial No. 507,078.

edge of the plate there are heads 6 b of yielding material such forinstance as rubber and these are connected to the plate preferably asshown in Figs. 3 and 5'; said yielding material being molded around asuitable rivet-head, the shank of which is secured to the plate a.

I provide a hinged member or plate 0 having lugs 0 through which and thelugs a of the plate a a pivot-bar 2 passes in connecting the plate a andhinged member or plate 0 in a swinging relation. This hinged member 0 isprovided with a projection 3 adapted to bear upon the surface of thespring tongue a This hinged member or plate 0 is also provided withopenings larger than and concentric with the heads 5 b and surroundingthe same. I also provide a locking member (Z connected by a pivot screw4 to the outer face of the plate a as shown, and this locking member isprovided with a finger plate 5 and with a wedge edge 6, and in the formof my invention shown in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, this locking plate isadapted to fit down behind the projection 3 and spring tongue 0. back ofthe said spring tongue, so as to exert a force independent of that ofthe spring tongue to prevent any movement of the hinged member 0.

In the drawing 6 represents the trousers waist-band and f the waistbandof the drawers. The trousers waist-band 0 comes between the plate a andthe spring clip structure a so that the implement is thus connected tothe trousers for its support; the spring tongue exerting a clampingaction to hold the parts in position.

hen the locking member d is raised in the position Fig. 2, the hingedmember 0 may be swung outward and upward in the direction of the dottedline Fig. 3, on its pivot-bar 2. This raises the hinged member or plateabove the plate a and allows the waist-band of the drawers to be laidagainst the plate a. The hinged member 0 or plate is then to be turnedback into the position illustrated in the drawings and in which thefabric will pass over the heads 6 b and through the openings in theplate 0, and when the locking member (Z is applied, this plate 0 will beheld in a fixed position positively engaging the garment and preventingthe accidental separation of the trousers and drawers. Therefore whenthe trousers are held up by the suspenders the clasp device of myinvention supports the drawers from the trousers.

I claim as my invention:

A garment clasp comprising a main plate, a spring clip structure formedby bending over one edge of the-plate so as to receive between the plateand the spring clip structure the trousers waist-band, lugs formed onopposite edges of said plate, a spring tongue formed from said plate byremoving the surrounding portion, a yielding member secured to saidplate, a hinged apertured member having oppositely disposed lugs and apivot-bar for connecting the member to the lugs of the plate member in aswinging relation, a projection formed with the hinged member andadapted to come in contact with the spring tongue of the plate member,and a locking member pivotally connected to the late and comprising afinger portion, a pivot screw and a wedge edge and adapted to comebehind the spring tongue of the plate member and the projection of thehinged member.

Signed by me this 7th day of July 1909. OTTO KAMPFE. Witnesses GEO. T.PINOKNEY, E. ZAOHARIASEN.

